Sun.May 19, 2019

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Is Your Value Proposition Strong Enough?

Jill Konrath

I was eating lunch with the new president of a large manufacturing company. She was well aware of the work I’d done with their sales organization. So when I asked about her biggest challenge, I assumed we’d be talking sales. Instead, she answered, “Waste.”.

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The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Relevant Buyer Experiences

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Theresa O'Neil, Chief Marketing Officer of Showpad Today’s B2B buyers have higher expectations than ever before, and their criteria for making purchase decisions is evolving. While having a great product at the right price point is certainly important, it doesn’t guarantee success. A study from SiriusDecisions found that 81 percent of B2B buyers today make purchase decisions based on buying experience, rather than product or price.

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How to Magically Move Prospects into a Buying State of Mind

Membrain

Let's cover some of the lies being told to companies with sales organizations and how those lies prevent sales organizations from being their best.

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Become a Kick-Ass Salesperson and Rock Star Manager Using Springboard Questions

Keith Rosen

Just because you may speak the same language with people at work or at home, doesn’t mean you’re speaking the same language! Developing sales leaders, coaching top performers and closing more sales is infinitely easier, when you learn how to leverage Springboard Coaching Questions to get to a better solution quickly and avoid the costly, time-consuming assumptions which derail and destroy conversations.

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.

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“Is It OK To Manipulate For Good Purposes?”

Partners in Excellence

James Muir published an outstanding post, “ Is it ok to manipulate clients for their own good? ” It’s a must read. Basically, James describes a conversation with a sales person who feels it’s OK to manipulate and pressure a customer because that sales person knows how happy the customer will be with the solution. Most of you would, hopefully, find this premise not only arrogant, but preposterous.

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Finding Your Next Success – Sale Management

Pipeliner

Looking to The Future. Wouldn’t you rather put yourself out of business than have a competitor do it for you? Joe Calloway, author, and business coach says the biggest obstacle to your future success is your present success. In this interview, he talks about how the constant upheaval in the marketplace means we should always be looking for our next best thing and finding our next success.

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The Role of XR in Buyer Enablement [2019]

Bigtincan

The statistics from The RAIN Group below highlight how much of a buyer’s process is completed before they talk to a sales person. 57% of the purchase decision is made before a customer calls a supplier 67% of the buying journey is now done digitally Many marketers are digging deeply into intent data as one […].

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??Sales Team Motivation

Pipeliner

ESSENTIAL SALES TASKS WE SHOULD DO, BUT OFTEN DON’T. In this podcast, John Golden talks to Leigh Ashton about sales team motivation: It happens to all of us. We know the things that we should be doing, but neglect to actually do them. The same is true for salespeople. Essential tasks that are important for overall sales generation often get pushed to the wayside.

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TSE 1097: Fatal Mistake - You’re Not Leaving Anything Behind

Sales Evangelist

If you find that your deals are falling through the cracks or you're losing your prospects to your competition, perhaps the problem is that you're not leaving anything behind. You might be thinking of brochures and other leave-behinds, but that's not what we're talking about here. Instead, we're talking about the things you should be leaving behind any why these things are so critical to moving your deal forward.

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Supercharge Your Sales: 5 Steps to Effortless Selling

Sales teams often lose precious time hunting for updated sales materials, while marketing struggles to keep these assets accessible and current. It's not just about managing; it's about seamlessly finding, presenting, and sharing critical sales content. All of this takes place within an intuitive, unified platform. Dive into Showell's groundbreaking content management realm.

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Weekly Recap, May 19, 2019

Selling Energy

Here are our favorite sales-enhancing tips from this week's Selling Energy Blogs.

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